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25Review of Larry May, Marilyn Friedman and Andy Clark: Mind and Morals: Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science. (review)Ethics 107 (2): 349-351. 1997.
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1Why and How? Teleological and Causal Concepts in Action ExplanationIn Gunnar Schumann (ed.), Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography: Causal and Teleological Approaches, Routledge. pp. 59-77. 2019.This paper argues that both teleological and causal concepts are required for explanations of intentional actions. It argues against ‘causalism’, the idea that action explanations are essentially causal. This requires analyzing Mele’s Q-Signals-from-Mars argument that having a purpose and behaving so as to achieve it aren’t sufficient to explain an intentional action. Though Mele’s example shows that external causal interference can defeat the claim that an intentional action has been performe…Read more
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Deliberation and DesireIn Federico Lauria & Julien Deonna (eds.), The Nature of Desire, Oxford University Press. pp. 305-324. 2017.There is a tension between deliberation and desire when both are relevant to explaining the same action. A common way of understanding this situation, as contained in a standard version of the practical syllogism, is problematic. This paper attempts to resolve the tension by explaining what 'motivation by what one wants' comes to when deliberation is involved.
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14Rationality and Character TraitsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 94 (1): 261. 2007.
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25Action explanations: Causes and purposesIn Bertram F. Malle, Louis J. Moses & Dare A. Baldwin (eds.), Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition, Mit Press. pp. 251--264. 2001.
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32Comments on Sergio Tenenbaum: Appearances of the Good: An Essay on the Nature of Practical ReasonDialogue 48 (2): 387. 2009.
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24IntentionalityIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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31Review of Sergio Tenenbaum (ed.), Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (11). 2010.
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899Motivational Internalism and ExternalismIn Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 293-300. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: References.
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209The Humean theory of motivation rejectedPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 78 (1): 103-122. 2008.In this paper I will argue that the latter group [of Non-Humeans] is correct. My argument focuses on practical deliberation and has two parts. I will discuss two different problems that arise for the Humean Theory and suggest that while taken individually each problem appears to have a solution, for each problem the solution Humeans offer precludes solving the other problem. I will suggest that to see these difficulties we must take seriously the thought that we can only understand an agent’s re…Read more
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271Interpretative explanationsIn Constantine Sandis (ed.), New essays on the explanation of action, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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147Desire: Its Role in Practical Reason and the Explanation of ActionMIT Press. 1995.Does action always arise out of desire? G. F. Schueler examines this hotly debated topic in philosophy of action and moral philosophy, arguing that once two senses of "desire" are distinguished - roughly, genuine desires and pro attitudes - apparently plausible explanations of action in terms of the agent's desires can be seen to be mistaken. Desire probes a fundamental issue in philosophy of mind, the nature of desires and how, if at all, they motivate and justify our actions. At least since Hu…Read more
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24Review of Joshua Gert: Normative Bedrock: Resopnse-Dependence, Rationality, and ReasonsNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2013 (05.24). 2013.
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73Review of Three Faces of Desire by Timothy Schroeder (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 82 (1): 249-260. 2010.
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21The Humean Theory of Motivation Rejected1Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78 (1): 103-122. 2008.
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